The Russian Ministry of Agriculture plans to increase the volume of exports of agricultural products in money terms in 7-10 years, the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said last month in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel, TASS informs.
“This year the volume of exports will reach $20 bn....
A delegation of 30 South African farming families has arrived in Russia's Stavropol region, known for its agriculture, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The white farmers, descendants of Dutch colonizers in South Africa, are known as Afrikaners, and they have been facing violent attacks and death threats at home.
According to the delegation, up...
The recent opening of the Chinese market for poultry exports from Russia will aid the already growing Russian meat exports, despite the threat of avian influenza (AI) following outbreaks this year, Global Meat News reports.
Meat exports from Russia have been rising throughout 2018 and this growth could accelerate...
Russia's agricultural watchdog said on Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit against meat firm Cherkizovo, one of the country’s top producers of poultry and pork, over safety violations, Prime news agency reported.
Rosselkhoznadzor, the country’s food safety regulator, said it had asked the court to halt sales of products...
Russian authorities have proposed extending a food embargo to prohibit imports of all kinds of meat and breeding stock supplied to the country by the U.S., the European Union, Canada, Australia, Norway, Ukraine and a number of other countries, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
"The proposed changes are due to...
Russia on Thursday announced a temporary ban on imports of some Belarusian dairy products including milk, citing "repeated violations of veterinary and sanitary norms," TASS news agency reports.
The two neighboring countries have been wrangling over the key dairy sector for months. Russia's agricultural industry regulator Rosselkhoznadzor announced on its...
Cherkizovo, the second-biggest broiler meat producer in Russia, has culled all poultry stock at the Vertunoskyi poultry farm in Penza Oblast due to an outbreak of Avian influenza, Larisa Mokshina, a spokesperson for the company, has told Global Meat News.
According to Mokshina, that was an isolated farm producing hatching...
The growing trade war between the United States and China could benefit Russia’s agricultural giant RusAgro, CGTN reports. One of the country’s biggest agriculture companies says they are now targeting China as a key export destination.
According to RusAgro’s CEO, Maxim Basov, the company was about to sign its first...
Russian grain exports to China have hit the million ton mark for the first time this crop year, according to the country’s veterinary and phytosanitary agency, Rosselkhoznadzor.
Official data shows that from July 1, 2017 to May 15, 2018, a total of 1.23 million tons of grain from Russia was...
A temporary restriction on the import of poultry from Russia has been imposed in Kazakhstan, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture said a message, according to Trend news agency.
The Ministry’s Veterinary Control and Supervision Committee was lead to such a decision due to new outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian...
